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foredrew

foredrew is the simple past of foredraw.

Meaning of foredraw

Verb

foredraw (third-person singular simple present foredraws, present participle foredrawing, simple past foredrew, past participle foredrawn)

  1. (transitive) To draw beforehand or in advance; draw forward.
    • Our Lord foredrew the character of those who would reject his gospel on so groundless and awful a plea, when he descrihed the unprofitahle servant, …1841, The Primitive Church Magazine - Page 223

Questions about foredrew

What is foredrew the simple past of?
Foredrew is the simple past of foredraw.

Words near foredrew in the dictionary

  1. foredrawn
  2. foredream
  3. foredreaming
  4. foredreams
  5. foredreamt
  6. foredrew
  7. foredrove
  8. foredune
  9. foredunes
  10. Foree
  11. Forees

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Adapted from Wiktionary: foredrew (page history and authors); foredraw (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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